Intel 2011 Milestones: The Re-Invention of the Transistor

[HardOCP News]

As 2011 draws to a close, Intel achieved many milestones this year. Intel announced a significant breakthrough and historic innovation with 3-D Tri-Gate transistors. Intel’s transistors have powered not only all computers, mobile phones and consumer electronics to-date, but also the electronic controls within cars, spacecraft, household appliances, medical devices and thousands of other everyday devices for decades. New innovations will be enabled across a broad range of devices, from the smallest handhelds to powerful cloud-based servers. In the first half of 2012, 3rd Generation Intel Core processors, codenamed “Ivy Bridge,” will be built on this revolutionary design and power the next generation of Ultrabooks™ and PCs worldwide.

 

[niconx]

http://arstechnica.com/business/new...tm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss
Paul Otellini said the mobile TDP center point would go from 35W to 10-15W.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5192/ivy-bridge-mobile-lineup-overview
In reality the center point is still at 35W.

22nm trigate doesn't seem to bring any significant changes as promised. That makes me wonder if the marketing machine has taken over at Intel once again.

 

[Ehren8879]

I wonder how long they've been sitting on 3D transistors.

 

[tacosareveryyummy]

I wonder how long they've been sitting on 4D transistors.

 

[Trepidati0n]

I wonder how long they've been sitting on 3D transistors.

They (the concept) have been around forever. However...even the smallest of businessmen know you don't bring a product to market unless you can turn a profit from it. Before we got to ~20nm, there was no purposes in doing this. Now that we are there the amount of performance we can get in a small pacakage is sufficient enough to open a whole host of opportunities.

 

[MrAgmoore]

I wonder how long they've been sitting on 4D transistors.

What do you mean 4d ? The dimensions are X,Y,Z and Time

 

[MrAgmoore]

Can someone give an idiot's guide that explains how 3d transistors are different from conventional transistors. Wikipedia doesn't seem to have anything?

 

[MrAgmoore]

Can someone give an idiot's guide that explains how 3d transistors are different from conventional transistors. Wikipedia doesn't seem to have anything?

I'm at work so I can't view the multimedia links on the Intel page.

 

[Troz]

I wonder how long they've been sitting on 4D transistors.

I see what you did there. Well played.

What do you mean 4d ? The dimensions are X,Y,Z and Time

That's the joke. How long? 4D = time.

 

[niconx]

Can someone give an idiot's guide that explains how 3d transistors are different from conventional transistors. Wikipedia doesn't seem to have anything?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWSPDoIEyfs

 

[niconx]

^ btw 3D is the marketing department's name. The real name is trigate. Other manufacturers have similar projects in the works and they call it FinFet.

Here is the wiki. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multigate_device

 

[fattypants]

4d, 5d, 6d, and so on are just more axes.

Y is perpendicular to X
Z is perpendicular to X and Y
"Axis n" is perpendicular to X, Y, and Z

Every spatial axis can be perpendicular to all previous axes simultaneously.


Computers have no problem comprehending more than three dimensions. We should just have a computer design a 4d printer and start producing 4d objects...like transistors!

 

[Hornet]

The next big step is quantum computing. You'll have to wonder how far ahead these companies like Intel and IBM are in this area. Who will be the first to build a quantum microprocessor?

 

[Imaulle]

knowing these greedy scumbags they are sitting on pure graphene cpus that do 1,000,000 ghz

 

[Flapjack]

"Intel’s transistors have powered not only all computers, mobile phones and consumer electronics to-date, but also the electronic controls within cars, spacecraft, household appliances, medical devices and thousands of other everyday devices for decades."

How can they get off saying their transistors have powered ALL computers to date??

 

[DoubleZedRed]

How can they get off saying their transistors have powered ALL computers to date??

AMD runs on hamsters?

 

[rflcptr]

knowing these greedy scumbags they are sitting on pure graphene cpus that do 1,000,000 ghz

Time for another graphene circle jerk!

 

[Flapjack]

AMD runs on hamsters?

Well, it's obvious from their statement that AMD uses Intel transistors in their CPUs. Must be why Bulldozer was such a fail.